Following its November meeting, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has updated its work plan

December 1, 2014

The revised plan adds a target date for amendments to IFRS for SMEs (Q1 2015) and a timeframe for the comment letter analysis (Q1 2015) on the discussion paper on macro hedging.

Further, the IASB now expects to issue an exposure draft on the elimination of gains or losses arising from transactions between an entity and its associate or joint venture in Q1 2015 (previously Q4 2014).

Lastly, it includes updates to the expected timing of board discussions for the short-term research projects on business combinations under common control (Q1 2015), discount rate (Q1 2015), emissions trading scheme (Q4 2014 through Q1 2015), equity method (Q4 2014 through Q2 2015), and financial instruments with characteristics of equity (Q4 2014), as well as, long-term research project on post-employment benefits (Q1 and Q2 2015).

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